Stock waterer



July 7, 1931.

INH' l ||l l A. I. RALSTON STOCK WATERER Filed 2 Sheets-Sheet l A 'am fluor/nm: o,

A. l. l RALSTON STOCK WATERER Filed April 27, 1926 July 7, 1931.

2 sheets-sheet 2 50 the opposite end thereof having connection iron. and concrete.

Per@ July l 1931i y 1,813,318-

ALFRED 1. nALsToN, or OMAHA, .NEBRASKA u strook WATERER V Application inea April y27',A 192e. seriai- No. 105,002.4

The present invention relates to a waterwith the rod`11 on which thevalvefmember ing device especially designed for use jin y12isvpositioned, the valve member 12 being barnyards, pastures or the like, thepriniary constructed "to engage the valvev seat 13, object of the invention being to provide wlienthe ioat 9 is moved to the limit ofits means for maintaining the water in the upward movement andicut off the supply- 'of 55 trough portionV of the device at a predeter water to tli'e'float chamber 8. mined temperature, thereby preventing The trough section is of a novel construcfreezing of the water in cold weather. tion and includes an outer wall 14 and an A further object of the invention is to proinner wall 15 spaced from the wall 14. tol vide a device of this character wherein the provide afdead air space y16, the lower por- 60 trough will be fed with water automatically tion of the dead air space being closed by as the water is used from the trough. means of the cork'or other suitable mate- Vith the foregoing and other objects in rial indicated at 17. f

view which will appear as the description v An inner trough is indicated generally by proceeds, the invention residesin the combithe reference character 18 and the forward 65 n nation and arrangement of parts and in the wall thereof is provided with an outlet'opendetails of construction hereinafter described ing 19 that permits water to How from the inand claimed, it being understood that changes ner trough,18 to the drinking compartment in the precise embodiment. of the invent-ion '20, The pipe 7 ext-ende into the bottom of herein disclosed, may be made within the the inner troughgo that, Water may poss from 70 scope of what is claimed, without departing the,f1oatohainber through the pipe 7 and into from the spirit of the invention. the trough 18. Y i

Referring t0 the dI'aWIlgS- As clearly shown by Figures 5 and 6 of o Flgulo l 1S l cllugmmulatlc VloW of o WEL'. the drawings,'the trough is spaced from the j tering trough. and @ed milk Constructed m surface on which the same is positioned pro- 75) accordance Wlth the mvcntlon' viding a lamp compartment 22 in which the Figure 2 is a llngitudinal 'Sectional View. lamps 23 are positioned, the lamps acting thgugl; th; tmgboger' 1an View of the to heat the trough and water contained there- 3a troulggl e Si f p y in to maintain the water at a predetermined 80 4 Figure 4 is a fragmental elevational viewtemperature f l i y illustating one of the closures for the lamp ,Closures 24 we provldool and oro o clolocecl f to close the opening 25 through which the compartment.v v

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on line lamps 23 Illa-Y be llglltofl ol' removed OI lll" 5 -5 of Figure 4;, llng purposes. f

Figure 6 is a sectional view takeny on line From the foregoing it will be obvious that 6 6 of Figure 1. as water flows from the` float chamber 8, the Referring to the drawings in detail, the float contained therein will move down- CleVlco llloluflos a Sulololy coul? 5a .a 'trough o wardly moving the valve member 12 to perand a feed pipe 7 which establishes communikmit Water to pass into' the float. Chamber 8 cation between the sources of water supply from Where it may pass through the pipe 7 and the trough' into the watering trough.

The tank 5 may be of any desired con" It might be further 'stated that while it Structlon and Sme the Capaclty of the tank is preferable to construct the'device of gal- 95. i

being determined by considering'the use to 1 which the device is to be p1ad Commu vanized iron, the device may be constiucted nicating with the tank 5 isa float chamber 8 of concreto Wull equally as good loool@ or in which the goat 9 Operates, the float 9 10e/ it may be within the scope of the invention ing carried et one end of the bell Crook 107 to construct the trough of both galvanized I claim:

In a watering trough for out door use, a body portion including an outer member formed with downwardly extended portions defining the sides of the body portion and having a central depressed portion extending throughout the Width and length of the body tiom defining a trough,A inner walls space from the downwardly extended portions of the body portion, the upper edges of lthe inner walls engaging; the' depressed por-- tion providing a space between the Walls and depressed port-ion, means for closing they' space at the base thereof to provide a. dead air space, said inner walls defining anI inner heat'- in chamber under the depressed. portion, nn' burners in the heetin lchamber.

In testimony that I Cl im they foregoing as my own I have; heretok affixed my signa.-

ture.

ALFRED I. RALSTON. 

